By the late 1920s in Europe new art directions were regarded as already completed phenomena, a part of “avant-garde tradition.” Such views were expressed by Jean Arp and El Lissitzky’s in their book Kuntismen (1925), and ...

This article considers the principles of Debora Vogel’s artistic project in the context of reflecting on the transformations of the late modern experience. Among the transformations, the one I consider key is the shift ...

In this article, Debora Vogel (1900–1942) is depicted as one of the most important art critics and theorists of the 1930s. In Polish as well as in Yiddish she designed a set of ideas both elitist and, at the same time, ...

This paper discusses the notion of Jewish art in Poland in the interwar period. Although in the Jewish cultural milieu discussion of how to define Jewish art started at the beginning of 20th century, Polish art critics ...

This essay examines the notion of the fantastic in Debora Vogel’s work. I argue that the fantastic for Vogel is simultaneously a novel artistic form and a form of life, as well as a singular use of language; it is both a ...